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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-16
Gen. Jackson as a Sheriff.

You see l knew Old Hickory per-
sonally. My father served under him
at New Orleans in 1914, when my eyes
were first opened at Jonesboro, Tenn.
I've seen the bushes many time be-
hind which Russell Bean concealed
himself when jackson compelled him
to answer the summons of the court.
Bean did not like the appearance of
his newly-born child. which he said did
not belong to him, and in his anger he
took knife and slit its ears He was
indicted by the grand jury and war
rant issued for his arrest. Gen. jack
son was Judge then of that district,
and when the Sheriff reported that'he
could not arrest the prisoner unless he
killed him in the attempt, the Judge
said:
"You haven't summoned the right
kind of men to your aid"
"Your honor" said the Sheriff,
jocularly, II summon YOU"
The Judge got off the bench without
saying another word, went home and
buckled on his pistols, and proceeded
alone to little hill where Bean was
hiding. He called Bean and told him
he must obey the law. Bean said:
eco away, General; I don't want to
hurt you"
"Deliver yourself up to me at once, +"
said the General.
Bean said he would not, when bang
went the pistol. The ball passed
through Beams whiskers and grazed
his cheek and the scalp just above the
ear. lie cried out quickly;
Don't shoot again, General, Tn
coming"
He was marched to the jail by the
General as special bailif who, when
he had turned the prisoner over to the
jailer, got on the bench and opened
court to try the case. Subsequently
the prisoner was convicted, and as we
had no penitentiary in Tennessee at
that time he was ordered to be branded
in the right hand with the letter IN. -
AS soon as the branding-iron was ap-
piled and released, and while the steam
| was still arising from the burned flesh,
the prisoner put his hand to his mouth
and bit out large mouthful of the
flesh and said:
"lhere, now, take your brandt
LOUISVILLE Courier OlTnal
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-16

A CHASTITY Indian trophy is shown at
the War Department, being meek
lace" of eight human fingers, captured
from the Northern Cheyennes in 1876.
The necklace originally consisted of
eleven fingers, each of which repre-
sented q pale-face slain by the owner,
who was the "big medicine man" of the
tribe.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-16

A GoLD-BEATEE Of Soochow, China,
violated an agreement of the union to
which he belonged. His conduct in
furiated the craft, and the word passed
round: "Biting to death is not q cap
ital offense." One hundred and TWEEN
ty-three of them rushed on the miser.
able man, each taking bite. Death
soon relieved the victim of fendish
rancor No one was allowed to quit
the shop whose bloody lips and gums
did not attest Of his fidelity
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-16

Down in Georgia they have con-
Guided that the world will come to an
end in 1877. Their reason for thinking
so is that a hen has laid an egg upon
the shell of which is plainly inscribed"
the outline of heart, an acorn, and
the number ". In Cuba, Mo-, hen
has laid an egg having on one side the
face of clock with distinct Roman
numerals. 1t would seem that the
hens are likely to start kindergarten
after they become little more prof
Gent in object teaching.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-16

Patti was commanded to do % little
singing at Buckingham Palace to help
out the jubilee. But royalty refused
to pay Patti prices, and the diva
allowed that her Majesty's commands
might be laid on somebody else. She
wouldn't sing, not q note, for less
than her price. She didn't get her
price, and the jubilee had to get on
without Patti.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-16

The police OF Kingston, New Mexico,
stood as spectators while Con Ryan
and Jim Burke fired five shots at each
other. Then there was no occasion for
the officers to interfere, as Ryan was
stone dead. It is always best to wait
a little while, especially in New Mex
leo. 1t gives bad man a chance to
go home with his boots on.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-16

The attempt of Charley" Reed to
commit suicide in New York the other
day by throwing himself into the river
from a ferryboat says Chicago pa
per, came near being the end of q
peculiarly pitiable and wretched ca
reer; pitiable because the man was
possessed of abilities which, if rightly
exercised, might have led him to ex-
allied and honorable positions, and
wretched because the career for years
past has been marked by series Of
disgraces, each lower and meaner than
its predecessor. For many years
"Charley" Reed was a well-known fig
ure in social, political, and legal circles
in Chicago He was man OF prepos-
sessing appearance and was possessed
of an afiability and geniality, joined to
brisk, dashing manner, which made
him great favorite and secured for
him popularity among all classes. He
stood we'll as a lawyer, and his politi-
cal sagacity was sufficient to secure him
twice the position of prosecuting at
torney against formidable opponents.
Had he been square man that posi-
ton might have been stepping-stone
to higher honors. Outside of his pro-
fession he was scholar of considera-
bic pretensions and was particularly
fond Of literature, in which he made at
least local reputation by his clever
Transitions. 1t is popularity Of his
case that his downward career was a
long one. 1t began long before he left
Chicago in his domestic relations. From
his first wife he secured bogus di-
vorce He left his second wife, an ac-
complished and lovely woman, penni-
less, and she has since been obliged to
earn her own living. It now appears
that there is third wife, who left him
some time ago and returned to her
parents. He lived fast life in Chicago,
and though in receipt of good income
squandered it all in riotous living, and
at last to obtain more money wrecked
the Irwin estate, Of which he was con-
servator, and beggared the children of
too confiding friend. It was under
this cloud that he left Chicago. He
next turned up as counsel in the Gui.
teau case, and he seems to have shared
in the misfortunes which have over.
taken almost every one connected with
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-16

MARTIN BEHEM is credited with hay
ing discovered America prior to Co.
iumbus. In first voyage of discovery
in 1850 he visited Fayal and the Azores.
and afterward visited Brazil, sailing as
Tar north as the Straits of Magellan in
1854, six years before Columbus set
sail Tor the West,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-16

The game of croquet has become SO
near obsolete that only few hundred
sets are now sold where they used to
sell by the tens of thousands. Nobody
wants to be called horse thief, liar,
deadbeat, swindler, highway robber and
State-prison bird for what enjoyment
he can get out of game.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-16

w. P. BLAKE, Professor of Geology
at Harvard College, who has been ex-
ploring the wonders of California, de-
clares the great Yosemite Valley is
simply the bed of an immense glacier,
and that ice action only ceased quite
recently in California
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-16

A BosToN man who has crossed the
Atlantic fifty-two times, and been sea-
sick each time except the last, explains
the exception as follows; II took a
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-16
BLANK g. BLANK.

AT the laying of the foundation stone
of the Imperial Institute the Queen
used glasses in public for the first time
The lenses were no larger than shill-
ing piece, and set in plain bit Of tor
toise shell.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-16

AARON Cove, President-elect of the
National Educational Association and
Superintendent of tho Denver public
schools is 40 years old. He is q native
of Rockingham County, N. H., and has
resided in the West a quarter of CEN
frrv
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-16

JAMES JAMES, a negro, and citizen
of the United States, who resides at
Santa Rosa, Mexico, is probably the
oldest man on earth. He was born
near Dorchester, S. c., in 1852, and
while an infant was removed to Med
way River, Ga, in the same year that
Franklin brought down electricity from
the thunder clouds. He remembers Of
the rejoicing in 1892 throughout the
country in consequence of Washington's
election to the Presidency, he then be-
ing 40 years of age. Five years ago, at
the age of 100, Jim could do light
chores, but subsisted mostly by con-
tributions from the citizens, but for the
past two years, not being able to walk,
he remains for the most part in his
little jacal, his wants being supplied by
generous neighbors. The rheumatism
in his legs prevents him from walking,
but yet he has sufficient strength in his
arms to drag himself short distance
fifty yards or more.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-16

rubber bag with me, some twelve
inches long and four inches wide, with
an iron clamp to close the mouth of
the bag, and filled it with small pieces
of ice every morning (the steward
brought me the ice in bowD. and APP
piled it Oh the spine, at the base of the
brain. down between my shoulders, for,
say, half to three-quarters Of an hour,
or, rather, I lay on it, pressing it
against the spine. 1t had most sooth-
ing effect, SO that frequently fell
asleep while under it, and afterward
felt braced up for the day, enjoying
every hour and every meal"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-16

Miss VIENNA CARTER, living six miles
from Wrightsville, Ca, while sweeping
the yard one morning was surprised to
see large hawk dash down into the in
closure, within few feet of her, and
pounco upon chicken. Miss Carter
was equal to the emergency, and as his
hawkship rose to carry off his prey she
ran to the biady's rescue and "downed"
the hawk with the broom she held in
her hand; and with one or two more
well-directed blows succeeded in killing
the impudent bird outright.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-16

CLEVELAND County has the oldest
living man in Arkansas. Jesse Marks
(coloreO, who lives with one of his
sons-in-law, some three miles east of
here, has attained the ripe old age of
11S years. The correctness of this
statement of his age is vouched for by
one of the members of his old masters
family, who knows something of his
family record. Old Jesse, as he is
commonly called, talks and laughs as
free as a young man, and gets about
quite lively sometimes. He remembers
distinctly and talks freely of many in
cidents of the revolutionary war. The
county is doing the old fellow the
honor of providing for his support.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-16

A PRIMITIVE anchor, very probably
lost by the early French missionaries,
was found at the head of Green Bay.
It appears to have been constructed
from a young maple tree having three
branches from the root. Another bar
was fastened on. Thus far it is like q
round-topped stool with four legs. On
the bottom of these legs are fastened,
with mortise and tenor, the fukes,
which were bars of oak crossing each
other. Between the legs of the
anchor the space is supposed to have
been filled with stones to weigh it down.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1887-12-31
PERSONAL DATES.
Great People of the World and What
 They Did in 1887.

Great People of the World and What
 They Did in 1887.
 JANUARY. 5. Secretary of the Interior Lamar married Mrs. William S. Holt. 1s Freedom of the city of London presented to Henry M. Stanley.
 FEBRUARY. G. Stanley started for Zanzibar. TO- Adelina Patti frightened by San Francisco crank, who tried to kill her with a dynamite bomb.
 14 Daniel Manning secretary of the United States treasury, resigned because of failing health.
 8. King Humbert of Italy conferred knighthood on George NJ Pullman, of Chicago.
 APRu. 1s. Attempted assassination of ex-Marshal Ba- zaine, of France. at Madrid, Spain. q. Edward F. Bingham appointed chief justice of the District of Columbia, vice Cartier, de- ceased.
 G. Queen Kapiolani of Hawaii received at the White House, Washington, with royal honors. 2. James G. Blaine sailed for Europe 31. Baron de Seilliere, who had escaped from French Iunatic asylum, arrived in New York.
 AUGUST. g. The duke of Marlborough and Rev. Joseph Parker, of London, arrived in New York.
 SEPTEMBER 30 President and Mrs Cleveland left Washing ton on their memorable western and southern tour. They returned Oct. 2.
 OCTOBER 12. Rotert Garrett retired from the presidency of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad company. %. Jay Gould sailed for Europe.
 NOVEMBER 8. Rev. Charles A. Berry. of wolverhampt England, called to the pastorate of Plymouth church.
 II. Dr. McCosh announced his impending resig- nation as president of Princeton university.
 DECEMBER G. Secretary Lamar made justice of tho su. premc court, Don M. Dickinson postmaster gem erai and W. r. Villas secretary of the interior. % Rev. Charles A. Berry declined the pastor ate of Plymouth church
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1887-12-31
ATERRIRY EVENING DEMOCRAT 3

II. U k;.:ed and many wounded by excursion train on L, F. & w. railroad falling through bridge at Chatsworth, Ills %. Fire at Detroit, Mich, destroys $25oOO worth of property.
 SEPTEMBER. 5 One hundred and forty persons burned to death in Theatre Royal, Exeter, England.
 OCTOBER. il. Thirty killed in accident on Baltimore and Ohio railroad at Kouts, Ind.
 NOVEMBER. 16. Four hundred burned to death in a ship near Canton, China. % One hundred and thirty-two drowned in collision between steamer Scholten and an Eng fish ship in the English channel. The Scholten went down.
 21 Burning of P. T. Barnum's show property at Bridgeport, Conn.,; loss $10O,000. 26 Great forest fires reported on the lower Mississippi
 DECEMBER. % News received that the big raft lowed by steamer Miranda from Nova Scotia to New York was lost; raft found broken up a few days after by United States steamer. 21 $5O0000 lost by explosion in Rochester, N. Y.; two killed and many wounded.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1887-12-31
THE DARK SIDE.
Evil Deeds of Crooked Humanity Set
 Down m Brief.

Evil Deeds of Crooked Humanity Set
 Down in Brief. It is indeed Q black record that follows. The evil minded enjoyed (what word to use here) very carnival of crime during the year 1887
 The most notable of the bank failures of the year was that of the Fidelity National bank of Cincinnati, wrecked by E. l.. Harper. Harper placed his faith in his ability to corner all the wheat in ex- istence and proposed to get fabulously rich at q stroke. His failure to compass this object not only carried him down, but took with him many more, some nearly as guilty as himself, but some quite inno- cent. He got his reward before the close of the year.
 Boodledom suffered somewhat of set back during 1887, but it's rebuke was not nearly so effective in New York as in Chi cago, for while several public plunderers have been summarily placed ill durance vile in the western city, and but one sscaped-McGarrigle two or three re suffering in New York, aud the king toodler-Sharp-is, through technical tty, free, perhaps to remain so.
 The most picturesque crime of the year was the stealing of great amount of cash and bonds by young McNeally, ',ank clerk, who was little more than babe, at Saco, Me. He fled, but was To- lated only few days ago-in Canada and now comes the cheerful news that he s to remain free-as long as he remains there, for his offense is not extraditable.
 Perhaps there will some time be de- cent extradition treaty between the United States and Canada. But not If defaulters and intending defaulters can help it.
 One woman was hanged-in New York state.
 There were many mysterious murders still not cleared up. Of these the chief was the Railway, N. J., murder.
 The Chicago Anarchists were hanged.
 JANUARY. ss, 14. ThapasJ c1uyerus hsIged ia Hssmkau
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1887-12-31
";oinp out- with n Doctor.

"I remember" said Dr. Roscommon, who read medicine in Chicago some thirty years ago, but who has been precticing in Iowa for a great many years, "I remember one night I passed in Chicago, and I don't think could forget it if I should live to be thou sand years old I was a young fellow and had just begun to study medicine. Oneeven- ing Dr. Freer asked me if would like to 60 out with him that night, and said would. About midnight we accordingly went to a saloon on North Clark street-Conley's, if remember right-and got a good supper. Then we started away in the doctors chaise, one of those old fashioned, jigglety iogglety things, and finally came to the city ceme- tery. After awhile we started for Rush Med ical college, then on the north side, with the corpse sitting up between us on the seat. The old chaise joggled so that we both had to put our arms around the corpse to keep it from falling over. When we reached the college we drove into the alley at the south of it and bundled the body into the shaft, whence it was to be hauled up to the dissecring room
 1.-The doctor and I parted then, agreeing to meet at the college at 10 o'clock that morning to give the body the necessary in- jection. I went into the shaft below and made the body fast to one end of the rope which hung down from a pulley, and the doctor, on the floor above, hauled away on the other end. When about half way up the body stuck, and went up and after good deal of tugging managed to loosen it. Final ly, when we had drawn it to the dissecting room and ripped open the sack in which 1t was confined, we found it was the body of man who had died in the continent stage of small pox. What did we dol What could we dol We buried the body that night m an orchard on the west side, and the doctor took his chaise oil into the country and left it to stand out all winter where nobody would go |snear it. That was my first experience in .go- fng put with doctor, and I don't think I shhii forget iEn-Cnfdkgo NswA
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1887-12-31
STRIKES IN 1887.
Progress of the War Between Labor and
 Capital.

Progress of the War Between Labor and
 Capital. 1887 was not signalized by such The most important were the cigarmakers' general and the printers in New York, Chicago and St. Louis: 10. Street railroad men struck in Boston. IA. Three thousand five hundred employees of Lorillard's tobacco works in Jersey City struck. The strike lasted some time. 14. Striking longshoremen in New York in- dulged in @ riot
 %. Pinkerton men engaged to defend coal breakers at Jersey City fired on the mob, killing one boy. The supposed offenders were locked up, but nothing was proven. 20. Strikes reported in the Hudson river ice field. This was soon settled. aG. Forty thousand New York Iongshoremen in New York joined the Jersey City coal handlers strike.
 g. New York coal handlers joined the long shoremens strike.
 FEBRUARY Worcester, Mass.
 5. Clothing cutters locked out in Philadelphia 2. Boston street railroads again tied up. Il. Jersey City coal strike ended. 12. Boston street railroad strike broken. 16. Cable car strikers at San Francisco place 
 MARCH. 4. End of San Francisco cable strike. 8. Organization of American Federation of Labor, Hartford, Conn. 14 Beer boycott in New York ended. 20 Strike of 100 children, mill employees at Bridgeport, Conn.-Cothing cutters of New York leave Knights of Labor. ....=. 21. Corning, N. Y., glass workers strike ended. 3O Strike of sT2 workmen on Equitable build ing in New York.
 21. coo silversmiths struck in New York
 MAY. 9. 300 masons and bricklayers locked out at Orange, N. J.
 8. New Jersey sronecutters struck in Fe" York.
 {. Stonecutters strike in New Jersey.-i3,Wl coke workers struck near Pittsburg, Pa. 12 Masons and builders locked out in Chicago. 19 Haverhill shoemakers' lockout ended.
 JUNE. TO- Pennsylvania coke workers strike con cluded.
 A. Negroes and strikers riot in Cleveland. 1s Strike of street railroad workers in Gin cinnati
 9. Riot between scabs and strikers at Alton, Pa Il. The strike of engineers on Mexican rail. way failed.
 5. Parade on Labor day in New York and other cities.
 4. Annual meeting of Knights of Labor in Min- neapolis.
 20. Great coal strike on the Reading railroad. Declared off next day.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1887-12-31
A: Hon. Freeman cIarKe, at Rochester, N. Y.. aged 78.
 25 Gen. James Speed, at Louisville, aged 75.

aged 78.
 2o Gen. James Speed, at Louisville, aged @.
 JULY. j. Duncan F. Kenner, at New Orleans, ageo '4. 4. Anson P. Morrill,, ex-governor Of maine, as Augusta, Me-, aged 84.-Alfred Krupp, gunmaAer' at Essen, Germany, aged T. 8. Ben Holiday, at Portland, Ore, aged 6s. l9 R M T. Hunter, ex-Confederate secretary Of state, at Richmond, Va, aged 7S. l9 Dorothea L. Dix, philanthropist, at Jersey City, aged 80.
 % Augustine Depretis, at Rome, Italy, aged 76.
 AUGUST 1. Michael Katkoff, journalist, at Moscow, Rus sia, aged e.
 9. Commodore Henry Hastings, at Boston, Mass, aged 69.
 Il. John M Clay. of Henry Clay, at Lexing- H. John Victor Drurey. historian, at Paris, aged 76
 14 Aaron A. Sargent, at San Francisco, aged 40. IT, Rev. David Curry, at New York, aged 79. 19 o. s. Fowler, phrenologist 19 Alvan Clark. at Cambridge, Mass, aged s. 1o Spencer F. Baird, at Woods Holl. Mass, aged GO.
 as Admiral Thomas T. Craven, at Charlestown, Mass, aged 80
 SEPTEMBER. 2. Bishop William L. Harris, at New York, aged 70.
  lina ct Flatrock, N. O., aged 81. 12 Governor Washington Bartlett, at San Fran cisco, Cal, aged 63. 14. Luke P. Blackburn, ex-governor of Ken lucky, at Louisville, aged 71. F. Joseph Ciley, oldest ex- United States sena- tor. at Nottingham N. H., aged 96.
 OCTOBER 3. John B. Finch. 9. Maurice Strakosch, at Paris. Il. Thomas c. Manning, ex-minister to Mexico, at New York, aged 56 13 Mrs. Craik (Maria Mulock), in England. g. Elihu B. Washburne, at Chicago, aged 1.
 NOVEMBER. ,. Mime. Otto Goldschn1idt (Jenny Lind), at London, aged e. 6. John Kyle Gather of American silk indus try), in England, aged 7o-Lord Wolverton, at London, aged 63.
 F. Valentine Baker pasha). at Tel-el-Keber, aged 57. IS. J. J. Breslin. at New York, aged 63 ?. Gen. w. H. Emory, at New York, aged T7. A. A. S. Sullivan, at New York, aged O. 5. Lord Lyons, in England (minister to tLe United States during the civil war;, aged 70. 9. Rev. I. s. Kalloch, in Washington territory. 12. Mrs. J. J. Astor, at New York. IA. Gen. Thomas Kilby Smith, at New York, aged 6G. 15 Father John J. Riordan, aged se.-Joseph R. Bodwell, governor of Maine, at Hallowell, Me-, aged 60. -...- 17. Sterling P. Rounds, at Omaha Neb, aged 59 24. Daniel Manning, ex-secretary of the United States treasury, at Albany, aged 56.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1887-12-31
DOINGS OF 1887. Lights and Shadows, Joys and Sorrows, All Set Down. WIND, WAVE AND FLOOD. Mortal Work of the Elements
 During the Year. A PSYCHOLOGICAL RECORD, Great People Who Lived Their Last
 Days in 1887.

The Political Chess Board-How the Made Their Moves on Two Continents Tho Criminal Record--BroIken Banks, Sporting Anairs-How America Re- tained tho America's Cup-An Inter- national Ring Contest-various Per- sonal Notes-1IisceI1aneous Briefs.